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Hello all, and it’s that time again where I am able to take time out and present you all with where we all are with our epic trip around the world. This evening you find me in The Seychelles, that beautiful chain of 115 islands located about 600miles from mainland Africa and is Africa’s smallest country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Seychelles came into massive fame from the 1970s with the opening of the international airport, bringing the worlds tourists, newly weds and sometimes Royalty, but in this occasion it’s 2 British middle aged pilots, flying an aircraft type that started flying over 70years ago. It’s summer here and a balmy 30\u00b0 and we’re about 4 hours ahead of London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far the trip is going well and with no real urgency we are making good time, there is a lot of flying over water at the moment as the next flight will take us into the African state of Somalia in order to make sure the aircraft is ready for the flights towards the bustling country of India, firstly visiting Yemen, Oman and Pakistan, also we need to gain British consular protection and visas etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far the aircraft has been performing more or less flawlessly, the airframe is overall in good shape and the engines are running well but some the sands around Africa have been giving us a few issues at altitudes over 15,000ft so until we get to Pakistan and following an inspection we will be flying at lower altitudes. They make for good photos too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hello all, and it’s that time again where I am able to take time out and present you all with where we all are with our epic trip around the world. This evening you find me in The Seychelles, that beautiful chain of 115 islands located about 600miles from mainland Africa and is Africa’s smallest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atw23"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flying.sarge-smiffy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flying.sarge-smiffy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flying.sarge-smiffy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flying.sarge-smiffy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flying.sarge-smiffy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flying.sarge-smiffy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/flying.sarge-smiffy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flying.sarge-smiffy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flying.sarge-smiffy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flying.sarge-smiffy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}